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Super Meat Boy is coming to iOS, but creator Ed McMillen isn't throwing it up there without a jab at the current crop of mobile games. Slamming the free-to-play model employed by many titles, McMillen has attacked the kind of business model that treats consumers like farm animals. (more)

I must admit: I still play Draw Something, albeit only with the few loyal friends that I have left (thanks Chad!). Like millions of others, most of the people on my friends list flocked to basically anything else, avoiding the game like the plague -- some users cited Zynga as the cause. (more)

When speaking about Major League Gaming, thoughts of "athlete" gamers battling each other for huge cash prizes while playing the likes of StarCraft 2, Halo: Reach, Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 2 and other competitive titles come to mind. The MLG professional Electronic sports organization itself adds the "pro" in pro gaming. It was founded by Sundance DiGiovanni and Mike Sepso back in 2002, and broadcasts its competitions across television, ESPN.com and other broadband sites like any other live sports ga... (more)

Team Meat's Edmund McMillen has made some more comments as he goes mobile with a completely new version of Super Meat Boy. According to McMillen, Canabalt is providing some basic inspiration for development. (more)

According to Rovio's own blog, Angry Birds Space has just hit 50 million downloads in a little over a month. They also state that the game broke all of their previous sales records (which are probably mobile wide, and set by Rovio themselves), and is obviously a rip-roaring success. In addition to some earned boasting, the blog also hints that "something even bigger is on the way." Angry Birds Space Seasons, perhaps? (more)

Beamdog has announced the writer for all of that new content coming in the Enhanced Edition of Baldur's Gate: Dave Gross. A very experienced fantasy and D&D writer, Gross has worked for TSR in the past, as well as having written two Forgotten Realms novels. More recently, he says, he was "sitting in a coffee shop complaining about the lack of classic RPGs for the iPad, when [Beamdog's] Trent [Oster] appeared in a sulphurous cloud and said, 'Have I got a job for you.'" Gross will presumably work to up... (more)

It's taken a bit longer than we expected, but following Apple's acquisition of app search engine Chomp, the Android option has now been cut out from its homepage. We're now left with the choice between iPhone and iPad categories, alongside existing shortcuts for popular freebies and apps on sale, in a few efforts to cut through Cupertino's 600,000-strong app selection. Hit up the source to give it a run for yourself. (more)

Foxconn just can't seem to get a break. The iPhone manufacturer is the subject of two protests relating to its workers and their dislike of current conditions. One protest resided in China and one in Brazil. One protest could have resulted in death while the other isn't quite so drastic... yet. (more)

Apple has once again, unsurprisingly, boosted its revenue and profits for yet another fiscal quarter. The company posted a whopping $39.2 billion in revenue and $11.6 billion in profit, both up from the $24.7 billion in revenue and the $6 billion profit reported from the same period last year. (more)

Last week's Switched On discussed the Slacker Portable, Sony eMarker and TrafficGauge, three dedicated devices that didn't make it but saw their functionality ultimately realized via smartphones. But there have been other idea for which the idea ultimately proved popular as smartphone bits rather than separately packaged atoms. (more)

Here is some old news that been newly confirmed. What took so long for the confirmation? Between the chaos of Dtoid's dating site taking over the world, sifting through all the April Fool's jokes that went live that day, and interviewing Mutant Mudds developer Jools Watsham for Sup Holmes?, this one just got lost in the shuffle. That's not an excuse, just an explanation. (more)

What better way to finish off your night than by updating your favorite jailbreaking tool? Now, you'll be able to do just that after the whiz-kids from the iPhone Dev-Team have pushed out a new copy of their famed RedSn0w application. (more)

The fourth episode of Sam & Max: Beyond Time and Space is now available on your iDevice, granted you have an iPhone 3GS and above. Episode 4: Chariots of the Dogs includes a playable Whack da Ratz mini-game and a Sam & Max soundboard. (Because ordering a large pepperoni from Domino's is less depressing when you do it as Max.) (more)

If you've seen the movie Contagion, you might be a bit more cautious about the dangers of bacteria, but have you considered the cleanliness of your smartphone? Every day we interact with our smartphones a countless number of times, but we can't exactly wash them like we wash our hands. Lucky for us, Kickstarter project PhoneSoap gives us an easy way to keep our smartphones germ-free. (more)

Though the iPad 3 just launched less than a month ago, excitement for the iPhone 5 is building every day. Apple is, as usual, trying to keep the leaking of any real information about the device to a minimum (more)

You'll be able to play Max Payne on a minimal screen next week. The mobile version of Remedy's squint-em-up will be out on iOS April 12, publisher Rockstar reported today. Androids will gain the ability to enter bullet time when Max Payne mobile lands on that platform on April 26. (more)

The patent publication describes a technology that can actively supply power and data to “an electronic media device while the device is housed within the active packaging...” This allows for a number of possibilities such as a useable and visible display, wireless firmware updates and other data content. (more)

Cave's iPhone ports are always of a high quality, to the point that it's kind of unsettling to see so much craziness happening on your phone's little screen. They're also populous -- and to that point, here's news of another one. (more)

At $18 on iPhone and $20 on iPad, it's among the higher-priced big-name iOS releases. But that old adage of "getting what you pay for" applies, too, as Chaos Rings II is a superb RPG that easily justifies its premium pricetag. (more)

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